Recaps

Su Yang learned that his parents were alive and was welcomed into the Soul-Reaping Bureau after awakening his Sequence Ability by defeating the Maiden’s Soul. The arc ended with Zhao Shengshen taking Su Yang from school on his first mission.

• Su Yang followed the Dead Man’s Book to tombstone number twenty-three, where Gai Fengyan told him his parents were alive and gave him a black jade pendant identifying him as a Sword-Bearer.
• Su Yang learned about the Soul-Reaping Bureau and Sequence Abilities from Zhao Shengshen, who said Su Yang’s power had yet to awaken and arranged to meet him at midnight.
• Zhao Shengshen brought Su Yang to the Bureau and subjected him to an encounter with the Maiden’s Soul, but the book absorbed the spirit after Su Yang defeated it with a black blade.
• Su Yang discovered that the Dead Man’s Book had absorbed He Tong and instructed him to investigate her death and settle her karma.
• At Bureau headquarters, the blind man in red and the Omniscients proclaimed an oracle about a maiden’s disappearance, a blade, and the God of Fate and Reason.
• Su Yang found Ren Yexue absent from school and learned she was sick, then Zhao Shengshen told him his parents were safe and welcomed him into the Bureau as a First-Tier Sword-Bearer.
• Zhao Shengshen took Su Yang out of school for a mission, explained his Domain and the nine tiers of Sequence Abilities, and drove him away in a black sedan.

Su Yang uncovered that his memories and the world had been rewritten after Ren Yexue revived him by merging her divine kingdom with reality. As Ancient Gods attacked Muyang City, Su Yang fought to reach Ren Yexue and found her wounded, with her divine kingdom shattered and her preparing to leave.

• Zhao Shengshen and Lina sent Su Yang into the Northern Suburb Cemetery alone to fight three mutated corpses, and Su Yang discovered that his blood stopped their regeneration.
• Su Yang found Teacher Zhao dead from a tentacle attack and rushed to Ren Yexue’s home, where he found only dead rats beneath her bed and stayed with her afterward.
• Su Yang realized Ren Yexue’s memories and the records of his own life had been altered, and he concluded that reality itself was changing.
• Heng Hong showed Su Yang his buried body and explained that the God of Fate and Reason had revived him by merging a parallel world inside the divine kingdom with reality.
• Su Yang recovered his memories of Ren Yexue and learned that Ancient Gods were fighting over the weakened deity’s authority as Muyang City fell into chaos.
• Gai Fengyan and the Soul-Reaping Bureau mobilized against the attackers, while Su Yang crossed the ruined city guided by whispers and questioned Gai Fengyan’s account of their past.
• Su Yang reached Ren Yexue’s villa, embraced her, and gave her the Two-Branch Blue Enchantress, and Ren Yexue said her divine kingdom had shattered and that she had to leave.